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Günter Haese

Günter Haese (b*1924, Kiel; d. 2016, Hanover, Germany) studied sculpting at the Fine Art Academy in Düsseldorf under Bruno Goller and Ewald Mataré. After graduating in 1958, Haese worked as a free-lance artist and soon discovered materials like brass wires or coil springs and small wheels of disjointed clocks for his spatial, kinetic objects. Other than the ZERO-artists Haese never resorted to electricity for his works, but rather had them constructed so fragile and delicate, so that they are moved by a mere breath of air. Read more

Haese was a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg and in 1994 became an honorary professorship for his artistic lifework by the Federal Land Schleswig-Holstein. Haese has partaken in many national and international exhibitions in museums and galleries since the 1960s. He had solo exhibitions at Ulmer Museum (1964), the August Kestner Museum Hanover (1982), the Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst in Munich (1972) and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1967), the Museum of Modern Art New York (1964) and participated at the 33. Biennale die Venezia (1966) amongst others. Haeses works are represented in several public collections, for example the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Museum Ludwig Cologne, the Tate Gallery London or the Museo de Arte Modern Mexico. Haese won several art prizes, e.g. the Cornelius prize from the city of Düsseldorf (1967) or the Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York (1967).

Günter Haese, Triton, 2002, brass and mat lacquer, 46.5 x 27 x 5.5 cm

Gallery Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020

  • Günter Haese, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 

  • Richard Haizmann Museum Niebüll / Museum für moderne Kunst, Germany

  • Galerie Reckermann, Cologne, Germany 

  • Freie Akademie der Künste, Hamburg, Germany

  • Günther Haese, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany  

  • Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain  

  • Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen, Germany 

  • Kunstverein Krefeld, Germany 

  • Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany 

2019

  • Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg 

  • Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Kiel, Germany

  • Elvira Gonzalez Gallery, Madrid, Spain

  • Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany  

  • Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Kiel, Germany 

  • Art Basel, Switzerland

  • Thomas Gallery, Munich, Germany

  • Quadrat - Moderne Galerie, Bottrop, Germany

  • Clemens-Sels-Museum, Neuss, Germany  

  • Kestner – Museum, Hannover, Germany

  • Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany  

  • Kunstpreis der Künstler, Düsseldorf, Germany

  • Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Germany

  • Interversa, Hamburg, Germany

  • Lopes Gallery, Zurich (also 1982, 1986, 1987 and 1988), Switzerland

  • Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany

  • Albrecht-Dürer-Gesellschaft im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg  

  • Art Prize of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany  

  • Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, USA 

  • Bibliotheca National, Madrid, Spain

  • Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA

  • Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany  

  • Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany

  • Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands  

  • 10th Biennale of São Paolo, Brazil 

  • Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany 

  • 33th Biennale of Venice, 1st Prize of the David E. Bright, Venice, Italy  

  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020

  • Utopie Beginnt im Kleinen/Utopia Starts Small, 12th Triennial of Small-scale sculpture, Fellbach, Germany

  • Gebaute Bilder, Werke aus der Sammlung Hupertz, Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, Germany 

  • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain 

  • Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris, France 

  • Making Choices, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA  

2019

  • Japanese and german sculptors, Tokyo, Japan 

  • 1945-1984 Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Germany 

  • Mataré und seine Schüler, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Hannover, Nimwegen, Krefeld, Germany

  • 150 Jahre Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

  • Athenaeum, Helsinki, Finland  

  • Landesmuseum Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany

  • National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan  

  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

  • Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA 

  • documenta III, Kassel, Germany

  • Junger Westen, Art Prize, Recklinghausen, Germany 

Public Collections